Rescuing Bolted Lettuce
Help! My Lettuce is Bolting. The heatwave that hit Santa Cruz recently fried my chard leaves and caused the leaf lettuce to bolt. Looking at the gangly plants, overnight grown to four feet in height, I wondered why we call this sudden growth “bolting.” I...
Life as an Author
Transition from Writer to Author – it’s crazy! I’ve been absent from these pages for nearly month. A month that at times felt like a year, and at other times like a single moment. So I thought it only fair that I bring my loyal readers, and my new...
Back to the Land in Silicon Valley
From the Prologue: “We all worked together. Ate together. Sang together. Learned together. We had a good life. After living close to the natural cycles of the earth year after year, good and not good, we grew stronger and more resilient, learned to manage our...
Sourdough, Suburbia, and the Path to the Simple Life – A Guest Post
A Sourdough Story Note from Marlene: Please welcome my new friend Tara Besore. She and I were both inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder to seek the simple life in our gardens and in our kitchen. Here’s her wonderfully honest account of the first time she attempted...Embrace Your Inner Couch Potato: Rethinking Productivity During the Coronavirus
Sheltering at Home, Week One The first week of sheltering at home, I thought “This is great – I’ll have time to do all those things I’ve been putting off. I unearthed a photo album from the 1980s that I wanted to bring up to date for my...
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